Jasneet Singh is a writer at Collider who loves horror, book-to-film adaptations and TV shows.
The Big Picture With the supernatural horror genre as saturated as it is, we're hard-pressed to discover any new or fresh content that makes us genuinely contemplate what we just watched. The Old Ways may open up seeming like a regular possession movie with a folk backdrop, or even of the torture genre, considering how early it wanders into violent territory with a bound and blindfolded protagonist, but we are quickly met with a beautiful and provoking exploration into cultural erasure.
Cristina reacts to this information as any "non-believer" would, initially believing it is a kidnapping and desperately pleading for her captors to consider a ransom. When she sees her cousin, she begs, reasons, and threatens for Miranda's cooperation to no avail, leaving her alone and shackled in the dreary concrete cell with ritualistic and macabre markings on the wall.
Though Catemaco is home to brujas who practice black magic, Luz is more of a shamanic healer who performs ritual cleansings or exorcisms. Nearly every religion has a similar figure who is rooted in ancient practices, like priests in Christianity or ojhas in Hinduism.
That being said, the film exhibits both sides of the cultural erasure issue through Cristina's cultural identity crisis. In the prologue, we are privy to one of Cristina's core childhood memories of her mother writhing in pain and lashing out during an exorcism. Unable to comprehend this as a child, this cultural trauma that put her away in foster care, spurs Cristina away from her hometown.
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